Oregons #1 new creative agency is now serving the larger Corvallis area. Bloxspace Creative Agency is formally based out of nearby Lebanon Oregon, but has a large initiative to focus greatly on assisting businesses in Corvallis.

While Bloxspace Creative Agency is new to the Corvallis area, it’s founders are not. Corvallis is full of small local businesses that value their community greatly. With the bustling weekly farmers market, small boutique shops, and the lack of large box stores, Corvallis is a community focused on people. With many of Bloxspace’s employees located in the Corvallis area, we have home ties to the community.

Bloxspace aims to establish positive relationships with many of the local business in the area with the goal of helping them flourish. Our creative agency is founded on the idea of helping businesses grow, one pixel at a time.

What is a creative agency exactly?

Basically, It’s a bunch of rag-tag artistic professionals who all decided to come together to create. We’re not number punchers, or data entry specialists, we’re artists. Whether it’s through words, code, or digital designs, everything we create is a piece of digital art.

We all live to do what we do. We’re not you’re average 9 to 5 people. Bloxspace is designed to be a company where creatives thrive, and you reap the benefits.

What do we do?

Each of our on staff Bloxspace team excels in a different aspect of our creative agency. From online marketing, to nitty gritty work of launching a startup, we’ve got your back. While we’re creatives at heart, we also know how to optimize your business and excel in the technical aspects.

We offer a range of services for all of your businesses needs. Including…

If you don’t know what some of those services are, feel free to check out our services page to find out more.

What do you need?

Don’t worry, we won’t try and up sell you on something you don’t need. The Corvallis area needs a creative agency that understands budgets and community. That being said, we’re confident in our ability to help any business increase their profits and their efficiency.

We have years of experience working with small businesses and large corporations, and know how to function on a budget. We also know that we can help you.

Maybe you already have a functioning website and great marketing. But what id your clients could schedule appointments directly on your website? Or what if you were the first to pop up on a Google search? Imagine the ease and business that would bring to you. That’s what we specialize in, making your life easy.

Contact us today so we can discuss your business goals, budget, and what we can do to help you get there.

Bloxspace Creative Agency is now serving local businesses in Linn and Benton counties including Albany Oregon. Albany has been deprived of proper creative agency to assist local businesses with all of their digital creative needs. Bloxspace aims to fill this need in Albany by providing outstanding service.

What sets Bloxspace apart from other creative agencies, is our desire to work closely and personally with local businesses. We know how to be creative on a budget, and we can fill your creative needs better than any big time agency. Bloxspace knows how to optimize small businesses in Oregon, for maximum growth and productivity. We specialize in making 10 man teams appear as efficient enterprises on the web.

What do we do?

Bloxspace Creative Agency brings Albany businesses a full service creative team with years of professional experience. Bloxspace offers web design, logo design, brand development, SEO,SEM,pay-per-click, email, social media, and app development amongst other services.

If you don’t know what some of those things are, or don’t know what you need, no worries! Feel free to check out our explanations of our services or setup a free consultation so we can get you what you need.

What we can do for you

Here at Bloxspace we pride ourselves on our ability to bring new content, and life, into existing businesses. We get it, running a businesses is hard. And trying to conquer the internet while running a store front, is even harder. That’s why we’re here. We love bringing brands back to live, or designing new ones that will help you create a lifetime of wealth. We’re here to make your life easier.

Even if all you know is that you want to own your own business, your far enough. We love helping launch new business and guarantee to give to a creative edge against the competition.

We offer all of our customers an interactive dashboard that they can utilize to know where we are with their project. If you’re utilizing one of our campaign features, you’ll be able to see the open rates, clicks, and scheduled posts all from your dashboard.

Why Bloxspace?

Because we treat our job like an artform.

Each of us here at Bloxspace work here, because we want to. Every one of us comes from a creative background and has years of professional experience under our belts. Were a team of dreamers, thinkers, and creators. This is what we do. It’s also what we live for.

Bloxspace Creative Agency is Lebanon Oregon’s first ever creative agency! Lebanon is a growing community that idolizes and supports small businesses, and Bloxspace is here to help Lebanon grow. Bloxspace aims to offer the Lebanon community a creative agency that focuses on growing the future, together.

To often are small business shut down due to big box stores entering small communities, like Lebanon, and stealing their thunder. How are local businesses supposed to hold their own? By having a creative edge. People want to shop local, but some think they can’t afford it or forget about local business.

It’s important to establish your business as an icon in your community. Whether you’re a farmer, clothing store, or a electronic repair shop, all you have to do is offer something that the big box stores don’t. Often times, all you need is brand personality and good customer service. We can help with both of those things.

What we do

We help business increase their productivity and efficiency through digital creative solutions.

If that all sounds a bit confusing and a bit of a mouth full, let’s break it down a bit.

Bloxspace is a team of creative geniuses that all use the power of the creative universe to spawn the most ingenious creations into reality. In easier terms, we’re digital artists. We know the ins and outs of code, marketing, social media, and Google. We know how to make your business grow.

Our Services

Why Bloxspace?

Because we’re your hometown team.

We know your community, and we’re excited to get to know you! We know who your competitors are, whether you’re local or wanting to go global. We’re experienced, and we want to help you. This is what we live for.

Just because we’re local, doesn’t mean we only know how work local. We have experience working with clients all over the world. Often times our clients are looking to expand their business to go from small town, to country wide phenomenon.

We’re eager to create a brand image that sets you apart from the rest. Because when you win, we win. We’re ready to build the future together, one pixel at a time.

All of the above email greetings are the most common to fill my inbox. I myself am guilty of using ‘hello’ and ‘dear’ far to often. But, what else am I supposed to say? As weird as this may sound, I was composing an email to a colleague I found attractive. Being the awkward person I am, I spent forever looking at a blank email template. I was just going to write hello, but that seemed to informal. I was then struck with the idea to lead with a joke. Turns out, I’m not funny. And all the jokes on the internet and tirelessly tacky.

So there I continued to stare, blankly.

I decided to leave my unwritten email unsent for a bit, and do some actual work. So naturally I started another email to a colleague about a marketing issue we were experiencing. But, just like the other email, I couldn’t find a way to start it. ‘Hello’ was just to boring.

So then I started thinking, what are some alternative email greetings? After some deep soul searching (and internet research) I managed to come up with some unconventional and also professional email greetings. So, if your about to compose a new masterpiece to a coworker, future employer, or someone you have a crush on, try using one of the following email greetings!

Semi-Comical Greetings

Top-of-the-mornin-to-yah!

Howdy

Howdy-do

Why did the chicken cross the road? To get out of this office!

It’s me again

Just felt like emailing you because you don’t have enough already

How soul sucking has this week been for you?

Hope you’re surviving the mayhem

You may want to get coffee before you read this

Happy unbirthday!

Happy not Monday!

Professional Greetings

I hope you enjoyed your weekend

Good Afternoon/morning

Please allow me to introduce myself

Thank you for the quick reply

Thank you for your connection

Thank you for your consideration

I greatly treasure this opportunity

It’s lovely to hear from you

How is the week treating you?

I hope you’re doing well

Occasion Greetings

Congratulations on (insert achievement here)

I’m following up on our (insert thing you’re following up on)

Just checking in

I wanted to talk more about…

I hope you enjoyed your (thing)

I heard you got promoted! Congratulations from your now underlings.

Flirtatious greetings

Hi

Do you like coffee? Would you like to get some? If you don’t they have tea and water. Everyone likes water. It’s also free if you use the fountain, but I’ll buy you bottled.

Hello

🙂 (don’t do this one! It’s creepy)

Personal Greetings

I loved this (insert thing that they did)

This made me think of you

I was just remembering that one time…

That photo you just posted in awesome!

Use a funny GIF if you’re close enough! Example…

Do remember that when you are emailing someone, they tend to be more formal than a text message or any other form of communication. Also do remember that if you are using a company or institutional (like a college) email (ex. @company.com) that they retain a company of all of your emails and have the right to use them against you in the future as they are company property. That being said, it’s probably wise to not flirt over email or send plans on how you plan to sabotage your boss!

Backstory

Social Media has revolutionized the marketing world for good. End of Story.

While old fashioned mom & pop stores may still choose to go the traditional marketing route of radio and newspaper ads, for the rest of us, those days have come to a harsh close. Once the internet came around, things changed. Once social media took the world by storm, this changed even more.

Nowadays, you can target your marketing towards a specific audience, easily. PPC (pay-per-click) advertising is an extremely cost effective to market to your target audience. If you’ve never run a Facebook ad campaign (or any other social media campaign) you can choose the exact demographic that you want to be exposed to your ad. That means choosing the age group, geographic location, interests, gender, and other things.

But what’s become even more common in recent years is influencer marketing. I typically define an influencer as someone on social media that has a powerful sway over their audience.

It’s become increasingly popular for start up companies to utilize influencer marketing when first starting or even in the long term. Typically a company will contact their desired influencer over the platform or other provided contact method. When they contact them they typically ask the influencer to post a picture that promotes their product. This is where things typically go wrong.

Things you’re doing wrong

You’re Employing them, Not working with them

When you ask an Influencer to promote a product of service for you, it’s important to remember they’re human! If you ask them to post something and they don’t find it interesting, they’ll do it for the money, but they’re not going to put a lot of effort into it.

When you message an influencer, imagine yourself as the influencer receiving a message from a random company who wants you to promote their product. What are you going want to read?

DO NOT USE THE WORDS OR SAYINGS cheap, saves money, faster, small, revolutionary, free, limited time offer, ect. The first thing that pops into your mind (at least mine) when people message me with those words, is scam. Either what they’re advertising is a total scam, or it’s actually a super crappy product. Your influencer doesn’t want to support or endorse a scam, they want to endorse something that matters.

Don’t even talk about your product necessarily in the first message, focus on your mission. Maybe it’s to provide softer clothing, more style options, raising money for rainforest conservation, or helping startups get of the ground. After you tell them what your about, THEN you can start talking about the product.

You want to build a relationship with them. Don’t treat them as a grunt worker and all you want from them is them to promote your product. You want more from them than just that, you want to work WITH them. You want to build a positive relationship between them and your company AND your product.

Once you have a good working relationship going with your influencer, and I cannot stress this enough, WORK WITH THEM! The influencers following will respond to posts by them, that include them, their opinion, and your product. The best thing you can do, is give the influencer free range as scary as that may sound. You want them to post a photo or video with them AND your product in it. You want the influencer to talk about your product AND your company. That way if their followers don’t necessarily like the one product, they may fall in love with your company’s vision.

If the influencer believes in your company and your vision, they’re going to create good content that matters because they want to. If you just approach them with an already created ad you want them to post and offer them money, they’ll do what you want, but your not going to get the same amount of engagement.

You’re using the wrong influencers

Choosing an influencer at first may seem easy and obvious. It’s as simple as choosing a person with a large following that focuses on your products field. For example, let’s say you’re a startup fitness accessory store and you want them to promote this awesome new yoga mat and easily adjustable weight set your company produces.

So naturally you go on instagram, search for fitness, and click on the top three influencers and message them about the promotion of your product. They end up liking your company, agree to it, and post it. The end.

Why aren’t you getting a whole bunch of new sales? What went wrong?

You’re using the wrong influencers. The most important thing to remember when choosing influencers to reach out too, is that a bigger following doesn’t mean better. An influencer can have 100k followers, but only get 750 likes and 300 comments because they have a low engagement rate. This could be because of a decline in the quality of their content, fake followers, or any other reason.

Engagement is what matters.

Maybe a person only has 3,000 followers but gets 4,000 likes on their photo. WHy? Because they have a meaningful following. The people who follow that person, trust them and enjoy their content personally and always engage. Engagement rates are super important, especially it your going to be paying thousands of dollars just because some has a lot of followers.

That being said, it’s also important to make sure you’re choosing these follows carefully and specifically on other fronts. If you’re promoting a yoga mat, get an influencer who focuses on yoga and has engagement. Selling weights? Weightlifter with high engagement. You can see where I’m going with this. Choose influencers as specific to your market as you can.

You’re not helping them

As I said earlier, don’t treat your influencer like an employee. Treat them like a partner. Just because you’re paying them to promote your content, doesn’t mean you should rely solely on them to do it.

Typically there is an enormous amount of pressure on influencers to make sure their paying clients content does well. If it doesn’t, it means that they lose any future sales with them and potentially damages their reputation.

So instead of just sitting idly by and expecting them to do all the work, you should help them too. Share their posts on your page, endorse them just like their endorsing you. It’s a win win for everyone. Always tag them in the content that you share that relates to them. It’ll make them know that you care about them and in turn will make them care about you.

Sharing is caring.

You’re demanding (and probably boring)

If you don’t get a response from an influencer, calm down. Don’t hit send. DO NOT bombard them with additional messages. It makes you seem desperate, demanding, and needy. Also if go have a deal with an influencer to promote your content and your not seeing them post or further promote it, don’t message them. They know what the agreement is and their probably actually taking time to create valuable content. It’s also extremely rude and condescending to tell someone you don’t think they’re doing their job. I’d recommend that it’s okay to send a follow up message in a week after the original message is you haven’t heard anything.

If it seems like your consistently getting ignored or rejected, news flash: you’re boring. Nobody wants to listen to you if you’re boring. You need to entice your potential influencers with good offers, products, ideals and overall charisma. Maybe you should offer to make a donation to the charity of their choice. Better yet, ask them to interact with you. Ask them for an interview, a podcast, to make a video together, or even just to review your product. People are more likely to respond to a request where they actually get to participate and put their two sense in.

There’s no Rules

Typically, I hate rules.

Rules suck.

But sometimes, you need them. When you start working with a new influencer, I would seriously consider laying down some ground rules, especially if the price they’re quoting you seems to good to be true. Often time influencers will give you a low price for your products promotion because they’re going to ‘sneakily promote it’.

For example, they’ll wear your product, but won’t put a link in the description, they’re bio, or even talk about it. Or better yet, they’ll only tag your company in the photo. NO ONE clicks on photos anymore to see who’s tagged in it. So if that’s what your influencer plans on doing to offer you a good price, you might as well not do it. It’s very important that you specify that you want a link in the description of the post or a link in their bio.

In Conclusion

Be human.

Remember influencers are human. They’ll respond to what you’d respond to, nothing less. If you avoid the above mistakes I mentioned, I can guarantee you’ll have a better influencer marketing experience. Most importantly, never be boring.

We all hope 2019 will be a year of change. We hope for change, progress, and financial wellbeing. But that’s all most people do: hope.

If you’re reading this post, you’re already doing more than most people will in 2019. You’re digging. You’re trying to find new ways to cultivate and rejuvenate your business in 2019. Whether it’s for personal or professional reasons, it doesn’t matter. I can already tell you’re on a mission.

Which brings us to today’s topic; having a content mission statement. Most commonly associated with non-profit organizations, content mission statements provide employees and consumer alike with an understanding of the company’s goals: its mission.

Traditionally, mission statements have remained commonplace for non-profits but scarcely found in for-profit agencies. But the truth of the matter is, not having a content mission statement is the equivalent of setting out to sea to get from point A to point B without cargo. You can set sail, but soon you will realize you have no map, equipment or true heading to follow. You’ll either have to turn around, or sail blindly; both equally unappetizing.

So instead of setting sail into 2019 with no map, save yourself some trouble and spend some time developing a content mission statement. Having a mission statement is vital to small companies and large enterprises alike. It provides a heading for all employees and consumers to follow and keep in mind during the day to day operations

For Example

The simplest example I like to share with my colleagues, is TED. Chances are you’ve watched at least one TED Talk in your life. TED’s mission statement?

‘Spread Ideas’.

That’s it.

Every day when you go to work at TED, you may get stressed out. For their video production, it’s a lot of pressure. You have lighting, audio, scripts, heat, time, post production, ect. At any job, things can get stressful. But at TED, the moment you feel like quitting you can remember why you’re there; to help spread ideas.

It’s important to provide your employees and consumers a mission statement that they can easily remember and know what you’re about at the core of your company. This is important, and it’s easy.

Breaking Down Your Mission

Most Mission statements are typically one sentence long and state the following:

WHO: who your audience is

WHAT: what information or services you provide

WHY: The benefit or reason for doing it

TED’s mission statement is a bit shorter than most, so for the sake of this article, we’re going to analyze Prezi’s mission statement.

“To reinvent how people share knowledge, tell stories, and inspire their audiences to act.”

WHO: People. Anyone and everyone who makes presentations.

WHAT: To share knowledge, tell stories, and inspire.

WHY: To make audiences act.

It’s that simple. Just by Prezi’s one sentence long statement you know everything you need to know about Prezi and why they exist.

A mission statement can also be more than just a statement. It can be a call to action. After all, it is a mission statement. It’s about stating what you’re about and who you are, not what you sell.

To your audience, a mission statement can serve as a call to action. It can cause them to act. It can cause them to purchase your product, employ your service, or go out into the world and spread your mission to others.

To your team it can serve as a moral. Before embarking on another company project, or publishing content, you can ask yourself, ‘does this align with our mission statement?’ If it doesn’t, it’s an easy discourager to do an unethical task or something that doesn’t align with the companies vision.

What to do with it.

Once you’ve sat down and crafted your mission statement, what do you do?

Spread it.

Put you mission statement everywhere. Put it on the homepage of your website. Paint it on the office walls. Make sure all of your employees know it by heart. Post it on social media and share it with the world.

Your mission statement is what truly makes a business different from the competition. It shows your audience who you are. Then, you can show them what you can do.

A mission statement can help you decide what your company will and won’t do.